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Primary Care of the Person Living with HIV

Life-changing progress has been made over the past 30 years in the treatment of HIV infection. HIV has transformed from an illness that resulted in one complication after another and nearly always resulted in death to a chronic illness that for most patients is more easily managed than diabetes or h...

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Autor principal: Kasten, Mary J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9025375/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35456055
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11040380
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description Life-changing progress has been made over the past 30 years in the treatment of HIV infection. HIV has transformed from an illness that resulted in one complication after another and nearly always resulted in death to a chronic illness that for most patients is more easily managed than diabetes or heart disease. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is now simple and well-tolerated. The most important priority of HIV treatment is ensuring that people living with HIV stay on continuous, effective ART. ART, although not curative, suppresses the virus and allows the immune system to recover. Even when the CD4 count remains low, suppressive ART helps prevent opportunistic infections and other HIV related complications. (1) Suppressive ART is important not only to the individual living with HIV health but is an important public health goal since people living with HIV will not transmit HIV to their sexual partners if their viral load is undetectable. (2) A respectful, culturally appropriate patient–provider relationship is one of the most important factors in keeping people living with HIV engaged in care. (3) Persons living with HIV deserve both excellent HIV and primary care. Some communities have providers that are experts in both, but often people living with HIV receive the best care by collaboration between their primary care provider and an HIV expert. This article is written to help primary care givers who are not HIV experts provide appropriate primary care to their patients who are living with HIV and emphasizes issues that deserve additional attention in people living with HIV compared to the general population
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spelling pubmed-90253752022-04-23 Primary Care of the Person Living with HIV Kasten, Mary J. Pathogens Review Life-changing progress has been made over the past 30 years in the treatment of HIV infection. HIV has transformed from an illness that resulted in one complication after another and nearly always resulted in death to a chronic illness that for most patients is more easily managed than diabetes or heart disease. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is now simple and well-tolerated. The most important priority of HIV treatment is ensuring that people living with HIV stay on continuous, effective ART. ART, although not curative, suppresses the virus and allows the immune system to recover. Even when the CD4 count remains low, suppressive ART helps prevent opportunistic infections and other HIV related complications. (1) Suppressive ART is important not only to the individual living with HIV health but is an important public health goal since people living with HIV will not transmit HIV to their sexual partners if their viral load is undetectable. (2) A respectful, culturally appropriate patient–provider relationship is one of the most important factors in keeping people living with HIV engaged in care. (3) Persons living with HIV deserve both excellent HIV and primary care. Some communities have providers that are experts in both, but often people living with HIV receive the best care by collaboration between their primary care provider and an HIV expert. This article is written to help primary care givers who are not HIV experts provide appropriate primary care to their patients who are living with HIV and emphasizes issues that deserve additional attention in people living with HIV compared to the general population MDPI 2022-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9025375/ /pubmed/35456055 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens11040380 Text en © 2022 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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